327 pages : 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references

Part I: Establishing the terms of public schooling -- 1. The political space of schooling / Philip Corrigan, Bruce Curtis and Robert Lamning -- 2. Another turn of the screw: educational reform in progress / Stephen Schecter -- 3. Crisis, classes and educational reform in advanced capitalism / D.W. Livingstone -- 4. The crisis in B.C. public education: the state and the public interest / Donald Fisher and Betty Gilgoff. -- Part II: The political economy of the schooling process -- 5. Education and work in the technological age / R.D. White -- 6. Books, boredom, and behind bars: an explanation of apathy and hostility in our schools / Randle W. Nelsen. -- 7. Multiculturalism, education and the ideology of the meritocracy / Kas Mazurek -- 8. Hegemony in education: The nuclear industry in northern schools / Robert Regnier and Brian MacLean -- Part III. Post-secondary education: challenge and conflict -- 9. The crisis in Canadian Universities / Gordon Shrimpton -- 10. Corporate management and labour process of British Columbia Community Colleges in the 1980s / Jacob Muller -- 11. Vocational education and the control of work: the case of psychiatric nursing in Saskatchewan / Harley D. Dickinson -- Part IV. Schooling for work and unemployment -- 12. Education and the labour market: the logic of vocationalism / Jane Gaskell -- 13. Native people and canadian education / James S. Frideres --14. Producing the female reserve labour force: women and schooling / Maura Hanrahan -- 15. The brain drain to Canada: the externalization of the cost of education / B. Singh Bolaria

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